Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB booting in LinuxBIOS

2007-12-01 Thread Richard Smith
Uwe Hermann wrote: Sure, but how is the boot from USB functionality implemented? Forth code? C code? Can we port it to LinuxBIOS/FILO/GRUB somehow? Its all forth. There are some forth/C hackers on the list. They could certainly look at the code and how its done. The setup is starting to

Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB booting in LinuxBIOS

2007-11-30 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:00:11PM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: On 30/11/07 03:33 +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote: [New thread] On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:25:32PM -0500, Richard Smith wrote: That said, here in the OLPC offices we have still have periodic pain involved with USB booting. A

[LinuxBIOS] USB booting in LinuxBIOS

2007-11-29 Thread Uwe Hermann
[New thread] On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:25:32PM -0500, Richard Smith wrote: That said, here in the OLPC offices we have still have periodic pain involved with USB booting. A lot of usb sticks are just trash. The generic case requires up to several seconds of delay before you can access

Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB booting in LinuxBIOS

2007-11-29 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 30/11/07 03:33 +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote: [New thread] On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:25:32PM -0500, Richard Smith wrote: That said, here in the OLPC offices we have still have periodic pain involved with USB booting. A lot of usb sticks are just trash. The generic case requires up to